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  "full": "\n**V. F. CALVERTON, ed. ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN NEGRO LITERATURE. 1929–1944. (ML 163)**  \n\n#### 183a 1. First printing, first state (1929) \n\n[within double rules] ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN | NEGRO LITERATURE | [rule] | EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY | V. F. CALVERTON | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [i–vi] vii–xii, 1–535 [536–540]. [1–17]16 [18]4  \n\n[i] half title; [ii] pub. note A6; [iii] title; [iv] *Copyright,* 1929, *by* THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1929 | [short double rule]; [v] dedication; [vi] blank; vii–viii PREFACE signed p. viii: V.F.C.; ix–xii CONTENTS; 1–17 THE GROWTH OF NEGRO LITERATURE | *By V. F. CALVERTON*; [18] blank; [19] part title: FICTION | Short Story; [20] blank; 21–525 text; [526] blank; [527] part title: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; [528] blank; 529–535 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; [536] blank; [537–540] ML list. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\n*Contents:* Fiction: Short Story. Fern, by Jean Toomer – The Goophered Grapevine, by Charles Waddell Chesnutt – The Yellow One, by Eric Walrond – Blades of Steel, by Rudolph Fisher. Fiction: Novel (chapters). The Fire in the Flint, by Walter White – The Dark Princess, by W. E. B. Du Bois – There Is Confusion, by Jessie Fauset – The Blacker the Berry, by Wallace Thurman – Quicksand, by Nella Larsen – Home to Harlem, by Claude McKay – Walls of Jericho, by Rudolph Fisher. Drama. Plumes, by Georgia Douglas Johnson – ’Cruiter, by Jonathan Matheus. Poetry. Poems by Phyllis [*sic*] Wheatley, Albert A. Whitman, Frances E. Harper, James Madison Bell, Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., James D. Corrothers, Paul Lawrence Dunbar (3), Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Weld Grimke, Countee Cullen (7), William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer (2), Claude McKay (4), Jessie Fauset, Lewis Alexander, Frank Horne, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes (4). Spirituals. Swing Low Sweet Chariot – Go Down Moses – All God’s Chillun Got Wings – Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere – Deep River. Blues. St. Louis Blues – Friendless Blues – Mountain Top Blues – The Blues I’ve Got – Loveless Love. Labor Songs. Work Song – Water Boy – Casey Jones – John Henry – Rain or Shine. Essays. The Negro in American Fiction, by Benjamin Brawley – The Negro in American Culture, by Alain Locke – Negro’s Gift to American Music, by Clarence Cameron White – The Freedmen’s Bureau, by W. E. B. Du Bois – The Negro Digs Up His Past, by Arthur A. Schomburg – The Negro Migration, by Charles S. Johnson – The Negro and the New Economic Life, by Abram L. Harris – Organized Labor and the Negro, by Charles Wesley – The Disgrace of Democracy, by Kelly Miller – La Bourgeoisie Noire, by E. Franklin Frazier – I Investigate Lynchings, by Walter White – Our Greatest Gift to America, by George S. Schuyler – Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship, by Carter G. Woodson – Dominant Forces in Race Relations, by Thomas Dabney. Autobiography (chapters). Autobiography, by Frederick Douglass – Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington – The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, by James Weldon Johnson.  \n\n*Jacket:* Uniform typographic jacket D.  \n\n> Text on front: 
 A comprehensive anthology that presents a striking picture of the intellectual development of the American negro. The volume contains short stories, significant excerpts from novels, essays, spirituals, poetry, and blues, and includes contributions by Booker T. Washington, Walter White, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Eric Walrond, Countee Cullen, and many others. (*Fall 1929*)  \n\nOriginal ML anthology. Published October 1929. *WR* 23 November 1929. First printing: Not ascertained. Superseded 1944 by a revised edition edited by Sylvestre C. Watkins (372).  \n\nWhen W. C. Handy authorized the inclusion of five blues he had copyrighted, he stipulated that copyright notices were to be printed on the same pages as the lyrics. Calverton acknowledged Handy generously in the preface but neglected to include the individual copyright notices. Handy or his representative contacted the ML shortly after publication, insisting that the agreement be honored. Klopfer contacted the ML’s legal counsel about the matter (Klopfer to Edwin A. Falk, 27 November 1929). He subsequently wrote to H. Wolff Estate, the ML’s binders, informing them that pp. 223–28 were being reprinted and that corrected sheets would be sent over immediately. He asked that the bindery’s truckmen pick up all copies on hand and return them to the bindery’s stock. “It is necessary to have this cancel made on the entire edition,” he stated, “and all future editions will, of course, be correctly printed” (Klopfer to Miss J. A. Lanning, H. Wolff Estate, 26 December 1929). The corrected state of the first printing is described under 183a2. \n\nCalverton’s *Anthology of American Negro Literature* sold 3,243 copies during the eighteen-month period May 1942–October 1943, placing it near the top of the fourth quarter of ML and Giant titles in terms of sales. The anthology was superseded in 1944 by a new edition edited by Sylvestre C. Watkins (372). Watkins omitted poetry and other material. \n\nCalverton’s anthology was superseded in 1944 by a new edition edited by Sylvestre C. Watkins (372). Watkins omitted poetry and other material.  \n\n",
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